After hearing this, the queen mother had no choice but to smile bitterly, "How can you say that the prince is a piece of filial piety, this palace is wrong to blame you, since this is the case, then get up and speak." ”

"Thank your mother for being tolerant."

Yuan Zhi got up and stood aside.

When Cao Feiyan waved away everyone in the palace, leaving only her and the crown prince, she grinned coldly and said, "Say, what's the matter with finding this palace?" ”

"The son-in-law first asked for peace, and by the way, he remembered one thing, and he just wanted to discuss it with the queen mother."

Yuan Zhi swallowed his saliva, raised his eyes to look at Cao Feiyan, and said in a deep voice:

"The son respects the order of his father and plans to marry Guo Xiuniang, the daughter of Guo Wei, the prince of Dingguo, as the crown princess.

"I'm afraid it won't work." Cao Feiyan said.

"Why?"

"The palace specially invited Si Tianjian to divinate and watch the stars for the two of you, and the soothsayer said that the prince and Miss Guo San do not agree, and her life is hard, and she will defeat the prince."

Cao Feiyan Lian moved slowly and said in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Si Tianjian, is it the soothsayer Yuan Tiangang? Lone asked him to understand. ”

Yuan Zhi suddenly felt that this matter was strange, and he got up and prepared to walk out.

"The prince is slow, Yuan Taishi is no longer in the palace, he went out to travel yesterday, it was promised by the palace, this result is that before he left the palace, he made a special trip to tell the palace, is there anything wrong?"

Cao Feiyan stared at the prince with charming eyes, and there was a hint of imperceptible smugness on the corner of her mouth.

She leaned in and whispered:

"Is the prince disappointed? Don't worry, there are many famous ladies in the capital, and the princess has to be carefully selected, first of all, she must have a good character, but this palace heard that this Miss Guo San likes to show her head and attract bees and butterflies..."

Yuan Zhi only felt that the tip of his nose was lingering, and it was the familiar and attractive fragrance.

"Queen Mother, please be cautious, it is very inappropriate to criticize the third lady of the Guo family behind her back, but the matter of the crown princess is very important, and the sons have to find Yuan Taishi and ask for clarification."

Yuan Zhi took a few steps back, his body was half cold, he covered his face with his hands, and sat down on the couch cushion with some frustration.

This matter hit the queen's hands, and it is estimated that she had already calculated it, and used this soothsayer who saw the head and tail of the dragon as a shield.

"Queen Mother, don't you want to see your sons and the military god family form an alliance, otherwise, it will be much more difficult for your Cao Mansion to depose the crown prince, so it is up to you to come forward to make an obstacle, yes or no?"

Yuan Zhi was a little out of breath.

Faced with the prince's sudden backlash, Cao Feiyan was obviously a little caught off guard, but she quickly adjusted in place.

I saw her face narrowed, her phoenix eyes were angry, and she said angrily:

"Nonsense! I don't know what you're talking nonsense? Such a rebellious and unfilial speech actually came from the mouth of you, the prince of the prison country, or wait for the palace to play your father, and from then on, the palace will no longer care about the affairs of the crown princess. ”

This counter-attack is very clever.

Without the queen's jade seal, the edict of marrying the crown princess could not be established.

Facing the queen's pick, Yuan Zhiqi hummed and stood up, and he was about to leave.

The matter of the crown princess can only be put aside for a while.

However, he believes that with Guo Wei's fierce loyalty, even if there is no such family business for the time being, it will not affect the Guo family's side.

Yuan Zhi took two steps, suddenly stopped and turned his head and dropped a cruel sentence, "Queen Mother, please tell the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Lord Cao, don't be too ruthless, the third prince of Cao is still locked up in Jingzhaoyin Prison, and he is guilty of the great crime of assassinating the prince of the prison country, and the sons have not had time to pay attention to it." ”

Without waiting for Cao Feiyan to react, Yuan Zhi had already left in stride.

"You scoundrel, get out!"

The queen was so angry that she looked at the back of the prince and scolded.

Yuan Zhiqi snorted and walked out of Funing Palace, and saw a report from Zhan Shifu.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the head of the Privy Council, and the Lord of the Household Department, asked to see him outside the Qinzheng Hall of the East Palace, saying that there is an urgent matter for His Highness to decide."

The crown prince waved his hand with a cold face and said, "I know, Gu will return to the East Palace immediately." ”

The team of men and horses had to run all the way, and when they arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, Yuan Zhi dismounted and hurriedly ran to the Danqi.

Before the buttocks sat down, Xu Xinchun spoke first:

"Your Royal Highness, the disaster is not a single line, the Yellow River broke the embankment before the 10th, Yuzhou, Huizhou, Luzhou, a total of 44 counties, the surging Yellow River pours southeast, one along the Jialu River, through Zhongmu, Weishi, Kaifeng, Huaiyang and other places, into the Yinghe River, the other from Taikang to Bozhou, from Huaiyuan into the Huai River."

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this time the Yellow River burst its banks, a total of 44 counties and counties, more than 12 million people were affected, and it is estimated that one million people died.

It's just that the misfortune doesn't go alone.

The flood was like a beast of prey, razing the ground everywhere it went, countless times more devastating than the drought.

"The household department wants to make disaster relief arrangements, and it must..."

"But His Royal Highness the Prince, these people are really shameless! Shameless! ”

Before the prince could finish speaking, Shi Shenyi's face was flushed, and he was jumping to his feet in anger.

Yuan Zhi frowned and scolded:

"Master Shi, if there are big things, you have to say it slowly, what kind of system is this? Is there any stability of the second-class members of the imperial court? ”

Shi Shenyi saw that the prince was angry, so he stood up, but he was still angry, and he said:

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the cabinet is really shameless, not only do they not respond to the prince's decree to donate money for disaster relief these days, but the yamen of all ministries and governments have reached out to the household department to ask for silver."

"For example, Liu Hanzhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, built a water conservancy dam every year, and broke the embankment every year, no, the Huai River and the Yellow River burst one after another, and he said that the treasury did not allocate enough money, so that the dam could not be repaired in time, and now Tian shamelessly opened his mouth and asked the Ministry of Household to allocate 6 million taels to him."

"The Ministry of Industry asked for money and said that it was to fight against natural disasters, but the Ministry of Rites also came up, saying that under natural disasters, people everywhere should pray for God's blessing and ask the imperial court to repair temples around the country, and one mouth is four million taels."

"The most excessive is the Ministry of War, saying that the military salary and military expenses have been in arrears for half a year, and even Jin Wuwei, who guards the capital, has been in arrears for several months, which will take away 12 million taels of silver, otherwise, the frontier is in danger, and the capital will be guarded."

"In this way, there are still all 20 million taels of silver left in the treasury, not to mention for the imperial court, disaster relief, just to meet these three yamen, it is not enough!"

Yuan Zhi's face was also blue when he heard this, and his eyebrows were tightly locked.

He, Xu Xinchun, and Shi Shenyi have different identities, and their perspectives on problems are also very different.

He smelled a stream of political intrigue in it, and it would be a storm of head-on swoops that would not give him respite.

"Jin Wuwei's military salary, is it really in arrears?" Yuan Zhi was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that Jin Wuwei also belongs to the Praetorian Guard series, and Qianniu Wei and Gong Wei are all issued on time, so why is Jin Wuwei in arrears?

If Jin Wuwei is in arrears, then there are 100,000 forbidden troops in the north and south camps on the outskirts of the capital, and the military salary will definitely be in arrears.

This is a very dangerous sign.

Alas, things are not going well.